A bowl of pickle soup with cauliflower and tofu, and a mixed plate of pork, chicken, heirloom tomatoes… and giant pork rinds!
My version of pickle soup! Wow, so good! Five cups chicken stock (homemade), 1 pkg. med-firm tofu (cubed), small cauliflower (1/2 riced, 1/2 roughly chopped), 3 lge stalks celery (diced), 1/2 onion (diced), 1 clove garlic (minced), bay leaf, 1 T ghee, diced dill pickles (I used 262 gms), 1/2 c. pickle juice, 2 egg…
The last of the ground turkey soup with celery, onions, red peppers, chicken stock, chili peppers, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper… really good!
Another Sweet & Spicy Kale Salad Kit. This time with a ton of sliced steak (yum, yum, yum). Not the best ingredients in the salad kit, but I’m not a purist! And it was on sale.
Sweet & Spicy Kale Salad Kit: Not the best ingredients, but it went well with leftover pork and crispy bacon. We all had a busy day: we walked to the groomer where two of us got our toenails cut (and biscuits), then we walked home, then we drove to the local Park & Ride…
Turkey soup: ground turkey, ghee, celery, onion, cabbage, red peppers, chicken broth, bouillon cube, chili peppers, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. I topped it with sour cream because I’m on maintenance and the extra-lean ground turkey needed some fat to get me through the next 24 hours. Note: leave the turkey in chunky pieces. Very…
Another big salad: Romaine lettuce, baby heirloom tomatoes, yellow pepper, radishes, olives, salsa mayo, salt and pepper… and a whole lot of steak.
JUST MY OPINION: I think trying to replace high-carb foods with low-carb copycats is a waste of time, money and energy. If you have to have a certain high-carb food, just go out and eat it once every couple of months and immediately return to low-carb. No fiddling with pseudo-pizza, pretend pie crust, almost lasagna,…
Seared a couple of sirloin cap steaks in my cast iron frying pan and heated up some leftover roasted veggies. For those who are interested, the raw weight of the steaks was ~400g. That’s about 100g of protein which is close to my daily protein requirements according to Maria Emmerich’s calculator. https://mariamindbodyhealth.com/calculator/ Sirloin cap is…